meanwhile due to their stupid power games people are dying...The shame is that the North Americans used to be remarkably good at deciding to do something and when you wake up the next morning they've already finished it plus they've built a highway and three schools with the left-over materials after they invented a whole new construction methodology along the way. ;-) We saw signs of this when they almost single-handedly staved off the financial disaster but there seems to be paralysis wrt their obviously unsatisfactory health system.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
